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W. PEARCE.

METHOD OF rename ox SHOES.

No. 314,191. Patented Mar. 17, 1885.

UNITED STATES {PATENT OFFI E.

NVILLIAM PEARCE, OF PLANTSVILLE,,ASSIGNOB TO HIMSELF, AND M. N. WOODRUFF AND N. .A. BARNES, BOTH OF SOUTHING'ION, CONN.

METHOD OF FORGING OX-S HOES.

ESPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,191, dated March 17, 1885. Application filed February 16, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it-known that I, WILLIAM PEARCE, of Plantsville, in the county of Hartford, and in the State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of OX-SllOGS, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of the upper and lower dies used by me in the forging of oX-shoes having parallel calks. Fig. 2 is a like view of said lower die arranged for forging the ordinary form of shoe. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a blank and a completed shoe as left by the dies shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a like view of the same as left by the diesshown in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a section of the dies through the longitudinal axis of one of the recesses, said dies being closed together upon a bar of iron; and Figs. 6 and 7 are respectively perspective views of the trimming-dies shown in connection with the dies shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.'

The object of my invention is to enable oxshoes to be quickly and easily produced from a straight bar by means of dies, to which end said invention consists in the method employed for forging ox-shoes from a straight bar ofiron,

substantially as and for the purpose hereinaf-.

ter shown.

In the carrying into effect of my invention I employ two forging-dies, A and B, which for convenience are formed within one block and placed over the die Ain substantially a line with the transverse centers of the calk-recesscs at and (f, in which position said bar is'subjected to the action of an upper. 'plainfaced die, D, and caused to fill the cavities of said die A. The partially-forged shoe 0 is now placed over the second die, B, and by means of one or more blows from said upper die is forced into the former and given the exact shape required. As the metal under the action of the upper die must flow outward and downward in the preliminary die, A, so as to fill the recess at such point, and from the outer thickest portion of the shoe 0, it is necessary that the rib a should below and transversely rounded, so as not to be an obstruction to the movement of shoe with the previously-forged shoe in front, and with said bar at its rear, and enables a number to be forged at one heat from said bar' without separation. \Vhile the corners of said die D are preferably left square, they may, if desired, be rounded or formed at any angle.

After the shoes 0 have passed through the finishing-die 13 each is placed over a female trimming-die, E, that has an opening, 6, cor

responding to the outline of the completedshoe, and is then operated upon by an upper male die, F, which forces said shoe through said opening and removes all surplus metal from its edges.

The dies shown and described are not herein claimed, as they form the subject of a separate application for patent.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, what I claim is As an improvement in the forging of 0xshoes, the hereinbefore-described method, consisting in the placing of astraight bar of heated metal having less width than the finished shoe longitudinally over the intaglio of a die, and then causing the metal to fill said die by blows from a plain faeed upper die which has but slightly greater length than the length of said intaglio, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of February, A. D. 1885.

WILLIAM PEARCE.

Vitnesses:

Anson BRADLEY,

MARcUs H. HoLcoMB. 

